NOTES AND GLEANIN&S. 
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On December 18 the Fruit Committee recommended another Banksian 
Medal (see p. cxciv) to another system invented by Messrs. Lee, of Knight- 
rider Street, Maidstone. The figs. 172 and 173 show the apparatus as 
made for domestic uses, but larger appliances are manufactured for trade 
purposes. The apparatus consists of a specially constructed steamer or 
A 
Fig. 172. - Used with Water. 
boiler, fitted with a thermometer, and may be used either with water to 
boil, as in fig. 172, or steam may be passed into it from a patent kettle, as 
in fig. 173. The thermometer shown at the left-hand side of the cooking 
Ijot records the temperature of the bottles and their contents inside, and 
the success of the bottling depends absolutely on these two points : (1) the 
destruction of every germ of mildew, &c., by keeping the bottles at a 
certain temperature for a certain time ; and (2), as already mentioned, the 
absolute prevention of any possible re-entry of air into the bottles after- 
wards, for which purpose the bottles must be hermetically sealed whilst 
Fig. 173.— Used with Steam. 
they are still enveloped in the steam or standing in almost boiling water. 
The heat may be apphed by an ordinary kitchener, or, preferably, by an 
oil or gas stove, when, as in fig. 173, the steam kettle is used. The fruit 
may be preserved with or without sugar, and when properly done v/ill keep 
perfectly good and fresh for years. 
